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This is A Gothic song... Please translate it from Latin to English... and please the accurate one...?

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Circa mea pectora multa sunt suspiria

De tua pulchritudine, que me ledunt misere.

Venus! - I trow'd thou wast my friend -

Professed to Heaven thou wouldst send;

As a disciple of a villain

Didst thou act the tragedienne.

Iam amore virginali totus ardeo.

Amor volat undique, captus est libidine.

Venus! - I trow'd thou wast my friend -

Professed to Heaven thou wouldst send;

As a disciple of a villain

Didst thou act the tragedienne.

Iam amore virginali totus ardeo.

Circa mea pectora multa sunt suspiria

De tua pulchritudine, que me ledunt misere.

Tui lucent oculi sicut solis radij,

Sicut splendor fulguris, qui lucem donat tenebris.

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  1. The latin lyrics of "Venus" are taken from the third section, Cour d'amours, of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. The Cour d'amours (Court of Loves) is a series of poems about love (and lust). Most people know "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi", but the last sections of Carmina are really beautiful, too.

    "iam amore virginali / totus ardeo"

    (For the love of a virgin, I burn completely.)

    -- This one comes from the poem "Tempus est iocundum" (The time is pleasant).

    "Amor volat udinque / captus est libidine"

    (Love flies everywhere, captured by lust)

    -- This if from the poem "Amor volat udinque". The sad (and short) story of a lonely girl.

    "Circa mea pectora multa sunt suspiria / de tua pulchritudine, que me ledunt misere / ... / Tui lucent oculi / sicut solis radii, / sicut splendor fulguris / lucem donat tenebris."

    (About my heart, many are the sighs for your beauty, wounding me painfully. (...) Your shining eyes are like sunbeams, like the glow of the lightning, they give light into darkness.)

    -- From the poem "Circa mea pectora".  


  2. whats the name of the song

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